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News & Notes: Harvard students stage walkout

News & Notes: Harvard students stage walkout

Around 70 Harvard students walked out of their Economics 10 class last Wednesday afternoon to show solidarity for the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations in New York City and to express their displeasure with the conservative “bias” they perceive in the class, which is taught by economist Gregory Mankiw ’80.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

Township elects Democratic candidates

Patience Haggin

Voters reelected incumbent Democrats Bernard Miller and Sue Nemeth to the Township Committee. Miller received 2,739 votes, and Nemeth received 2,682.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

Mayor of Jerusalem speaks about experiences

Regina Wang

Nir Barkat, the mayor of Jerusalem and founder of the software company BRM, nonprofit company Snuneet and educational website Start Up Jerusalem, spoke about his experiences and plans as mayor of Jerusalem in a ticketed talk on Tuesday in Robertson Hall.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

Democrats still majority party in N.J.

Teddy Schleifer

Democrats maintained their sizable majorities in both houses of the state legislature in quiet statewide elections Tuesday night, emerging victorious in a pair of vicious state Senate races in Atlantic and Bergen Counties.

NEWS | 11/08/2011

Lautenberg, Holt settle with former staffer

Regina Wang

Recently released campaign finance reports revealed that the campaigns of New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and Representative Rush Holt paid $19,500 each to settle charges by a former election worker who claimed he was fired for hiring minorities.

NEWS | 11/07/2011

Return of ‘the biggest social event on the East Coast’

Luc Cohen

In the fall of 1967, a team of “special scouts” from The Daily Princetonian and Tiger Magazine went on a trip to eight women’s liberal arts colleges along the East Coast. Their goal: “to select go-go girls for the 1967 ‘Prince’-Tiger Dance,” the ‘Prince’ reported in an article on Nov. 3 of that year. Below the text, the paper had printed the pictures of two of the top candidates — both from Connecticut College — along with self-submitted captions.

NEWS | 11/07/2011

Plasma physics scientists grapple with explosive power of magnetic reconnection

Prerna Ramachandra

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory have spent the last 16 years trying to understand the process of magnetic reconnection, a natural phenomenon that occurs when magnetic lines of force break apart and reconnect with a violent burst of energy. In huge bodies such as the Sun and other stars, magnetic reconnection has a very high explosive power.

NEWS | 11/07/2011

Cannon Club to open early

Luc Cohen

Cannon Club will be opening earlier than previously announced, according to updates made to its Facebook page and an email sent out to members of the Classes of 2012, 2013 and 2014 early Monday morning.

NEWS | 11/07/2011

News & Notes: U. scientists pinpoint meteorite destruction

University researchers have discovered new ways to pinpoint the amount of destruction that might be brought by a giant meteorite slamming into the Earth.

NEWS | 11/07/2011

Ex-Biden aide condemns GOP economic policy

Launa Greer

“The government has to play a smart investment role in expansion and economic recovery, or we’ll be facing a new normal,” said Jared Bernstein, former chief economist and economic policy adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, before a crowd of roughly 80 students, faculty and local residents yesterday in Dodd Auditorium.

NEWS | 11/07/2011

Administration questions new ranking site’s methodology

Luc Cohen

Two alumni are launching an online service intended to provide college applicants with a more accurate method of assessing the quality of a particular institution and deciding which college is right for them.

NEWS | 11/06/2011

Research warns of ecosystem conversion

Prihatha Narasimmaraj

Human-driven deforestation has been touted as one of the greatest threats facing wildlife and ecosystems worldwide. But a Princeton research team led by Carla Staver, a graduate student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has suggested that the loss of savannas to forests as a result of human alteration of climate and landscapes is an equally serious issue.

NEWS | 11/06/2011

News & Notes: Bank of America removes debit card fees

Following a controversial change in policy, Bank of America has announced that it will be terminating its plans to charge a $5 monthly fee for using its debit card.

NEWS | 11/06/2011

Firefighter hopes for local 9/11 memorial by next year

Emily Tseng

If Roy James has his way, Princeton will be host to a 9/11 memorial featuring steel from the wreckage of the World Trade Center by Sept. 11, 2012.

NEWS | 11/06/2011

University to fund study of community transit needs

Patience Haggin

The University has pledged to contribute to a study of the local community’s transit needs under an agreement with local government that went into effect on Tuesday. At a reception held in the Dinky waiting room, which the University has reopened under the agreement, officials from the University, Borough and Township celebrated the passage of their memorandum of understanding on transit negotiations.

NEWS | 11/06/2011

News & Notes: Cliatt ’96 named Vice President of College Communications at Franklin & Marshall

University news and editorial services director Cass Cliatt ’96 will serve as vice president for college communications at Franklin & Marshall College starting Jan. 3, 2012, according to an Oct. 31 announcement by college president Daniel R. Porterfield.

NEWS | 11/06/2011

Corzine resigns amid federal investigation

Catherine Duazo

Former New Jersey Governor and Wilson School visiting lecturer Jon Corzine resigned from his position as chairman and chief executive at MF Global Holdings Ltd. on Nov. 4 while the FBI conducts an ongoing investigation into $633 million of client money that is unaccounted for at the options and futures firm.

NEWS | 11/06/2011

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